I've established a routine during weekday mornings in which I get some things ready for my wife and my daughter while they prepare to leave for work. It's just simple things, but it helps to make their mornings a little smoother. Yesterday morning I was getting things ready for them when I stepped on a very small amount of water on the floor in my kitchen. My "accident leg" isn't strong enough to handle things like that when I'm slipping in just the right way, and I went down faster than a dork on a first date. My hands were full so my hip took the full brunt of the landing. The pain was so intense that I initially thought that I had broken it. After a few minutes I stood up and deternined to go on with the morning's duties despite some very severe pain. I cleaned the floor, packed the car, drove my wife to work, did some yardwork at the church property, and got dressed at home in order to speak at a graveside funeral service for a church member who died recently. Later in the day I picked my wife up at her workplace and assured her that I was OK (she had been a little freaked out about this all day). Why give in to pain, right?
This mornng I woke up to some fairly intense pain in my hip, but a little less than yesterday. Doctor Lazarus says, "if the pain gets better day by day, then there must not be a break". So...here I sit on my couch while typing with a lot of pain bothering me as I assure myself that all will be well. This as I try to decide whether to limp on the side of my bad leg, or on the side of the injured hip. Woo-hoo! While I do need to be more careful with myself, it's also a little annoying to consider that I'll be experiencing a very noticable amount of hip pain in the coming days because of something that happened almost twelve years ago. This isn't the first time that I've fallen due to the weaker leg, and I can't imagine that it will be the last. It's all a part of the need to continue in dealing with the motorcycle accident injuries and their never-ending aftereffects. At least I'm a hip dude, right?
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